Self-feeding cigar-bunch shaper



R.E.RUNDELL SELF FEEDING CIGAR BUNCH SHAPER Filed Dec.l 22, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet l .4 TTO NE Y Jan, 20. 1925.

' R. E. RU NDELL.

SELF FEEDING QIGAR BUNCH SHAPER Filed Dec. 22, 1923 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 www WN NY ,QN

A TTORNE Y Patented dan. Z, i925.,

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RUPERT E. RUNDELL, OF ROCKVILLE CENTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO INTERNA- TIONAL GIGA? MACHINERY COMPANY, A CORFOR-ATION OF NEW JERSEY.

` .SELF-FEEDING' CIG-AR-BUNCH SHAPER.

.Application tiled December 22, 1923. Serial No. 682,173.

To all whom t may conce/m Be it known that l, RUPERT E. RUNDELL,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockville Center, county of Nassau, and

State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement in Self-Feeding Cigar-Bunch Shapers, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to a self-feeding cigar bunch shaper; and it has for its main object vthe production of a device in which a cigar bunch is moved or fed to shaping position, there shaped, and then removed from said shaping position. Vith this and other objects not speciiically mentioned in view, the invention consists in certain constructions and combinations which will be hereinafter fully described and then specifically set forth in the claims hereunto appended.

In the accompanying' drawings, which form a part of this specification and in which like characters of reference indicate the same or like parts, Fig 1 is a sectional elevation of a device constructed in accordance 25 with the invention; Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the parts in dierent relation; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the structure shown in Fig. 1, with its cam-operated connections; Fig. t is a plan view of the device shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view of a cigar bunch and the shaping dies used in the device shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 6 is a fragmentary view of a part of a cigar bunch and one pair of said dies shown in shaping relation.

In carrying the invention into efect,l there is provided means for feeding a cigar bunch to shaping position or bunch carrying means, and bunch` compressing means operative to shape one or both ends of the cigar bunch so positioned, a part of the compressing means being embodied in the carrying means. ln the best constructions, the bunch carrying means engages the mid-section of the cigar bunch, and the hunch compressing means engages the ends of the bunch. The said means may be widely varied in construction within the scope of the claims, for the particular device selected to illustrate the invention is but one of many possible concrete embodiments of the same. rThe invention, there fore, is not to be restricted to the precise de tails of the structure shown and described.

Referring to the drawings, there is provided a support 7'in which, or on which, the

active parts of the device are mounted. This support is adapted to be mounted upon the bed of a cigar machine in connection with which it is used. The support 7 is provided with two parallel slideways, a long one marked 8 and a shorter one marked 9. Mounted to reciprocate in the slideway 8 is a long slide 10. Mounted to reciprocate in the slideway 9 is a shorter slide 11. The slide 10 is provided with a rack 12 and the slide 11 is provided with a rack 13, these two racks being in mesh with a pinion 14 mounted on a squared end 15 of a short shaft 16 journaled in a suitable bearing in the support 7. The shaft 16 projects to the rear of the support 7 and upon its projecting end is secured an arm 17. To the free end of the arm 17 is pivoted one end of a link 18, the other end of said link being connected to the free end of a cam lever 19 fulcrumed at 20 to the frame of the cigar machine in connection with which the device is used. The cam lever 19 carries a howl 21 which tracks in a groove 22 formed irrone face of a cam 23 which lis mounted on and driven by one of the main cam shafts of the cigar machine before referred to. The cam groove 22 is shaped to produce a rocking movement of the shaft 16; and when the shaft is rocked, the slides 10 and 11 are simultaneously reciprocated in their respective slideways. l

To the upper end of the slide 11 is secured a yoke 24: having two upstanding ends 25-25 terminating in bunch shaping dies 26. To the upper end of the slide 10 is secured an arm 27 carrying a yoke 2S having depending ends 29 each terminating in a shaping die 30, The shaping dies 30 are complemental to the shaping dies 26; and when the shaft 16Yis rocked in one direction, these complemental shaping dies are brought together by straight line movements. And when the shaft 16 is rocked in the opposite direction, the shaping dies will be moved apart also by straight line movements.

For the purpose of feeding a bunch into position to be acted upon by the shaping dies 26 and 30, there is provide bunch carrying means including a cradle 31 carried by two rods 32-32, the rear ends of which are joined by means of a yoke 33. The rods 32 are mounted to slide in suitable bearings formed in a bell-crank lever 34H35 fulcrumed at 36 to the Support 7 before referrelj tot, 13assingthrough a. s uitableaperture in the yoke 33 is a screw 37 Which is threaded into the arm 34 of the bell-crank lever34lf35- Surrounding the sci-.ew 37 and bearing-, against itshead and'v against the yoke 33 is a spring 38 which normally holds the cradle in the position shoivn in Fig. l. When, however, the belli-crank` lever 335 is rocked on its ulcrum 36 to carry a bunch ist@ peeterr tebe.el.1.epeel.theererlle 3l Gerrie/S@ .eerrteetwtlr en '.ediuelelele-etep 39v threadedfintothe support 7. 'The contact of the-Cradle with. the 'Step bringe, .the Creflle te. re,e...t.:befere llrebelli-ererrlr.. liever Gomes te restless. further mevelrlerlt' el" the letter. re-

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ofthe. bunhjlla pai't` of' saidlcompressing n'ieans beingZ embodied in saidl carrying nieanS. L Y lewln.v a bunch Shaper, theV combination with a support.havingvtwo parallelslide- Ways,- ofVV slides Workingvv in. said slidevvays,

coacting shaping dies. carriedby said slides, and means for simultaneously moving Asaid slidesV injoppositev directions.' Y

"5. In a bunch sharper, the combination` with, a support having tvvo paralleljslideways, of ,slides .Working in .said slidevvays, enacting shaping dies carried bythe slides, retaining means mounted" on said; A support v and engagging onen side oeach of said"VV dies, and means for,simultaneouslymoving saidl slides inY opposite directions. f

6.', In. a buncl Shaper,` the combination with a support having. tivo. parallel -fslideways. of slides woifliingin said,'slideivaysL reacting shapingcarried byfsaid, slidfes, retaining. means stationarily, inounted` on eeieleeieirert eed. errseslrselre Side .ieeelrf l ofsaid dies,movable retainingmeans inter- A mittentlv engagingrthe opposite side Vof-.eaoh

of said dies, and' means for simultaneously 105 movingsaidA s lides'in opposite. directions.

7. ln ay cigar bunch Shaper, the combination witha support havingfltiivo parallel sli'd'eways, of slides' Workingin said;` slide- Ways, coacting shaping dies"carried by Y slides, means. for. simultaneously moving said slidesinopposite directions, and means' for positioning ahcigar bunch betvveensaidfdies.

8. In a cigar. bunch Shaper, the combinav.slidevvays, ot slides Working. in said Vslide- Ways', tvvo lpair of shaping dies carried by y said slides, means fory simultaneously movingrV said slides in' opposite directions, means said tion With; a. supporty having tivo parallel K for supporting a cigar .bunch between saidS L20 dilea'yanld means for. moving said supportingmeansin and out vot,position between eedidiee., Y l i 9. In ak cigar bunch shaper, the combina- ,ition with. a support having .tvvo parallel A125 slidevvays, of slides Working" said slideweve.. tive. rer. 0f. Sheierls flies Cerreelbv .eeell Slides 'messe fer Srirlelreesslvmeving said hslidesrnn. opposite directions, re-

taining'means station'a-rily mounted on said' *13G support and engaging one side of each of said dies, means for positioning a. bunch between said dies, and retaining means cari'ied by said positioning means and intermittently engaging the opposite side 0f each of said dies.

l0. In a cigar bunch Shaper, the combintion with a support having two parallel slideways, of slides working in said slideways, coacting shaping dies carried by said slides, means for simultaneously moving said slides in opposite directions, and means mounted on said support 'for positioning a bunch between said dies.

l1. In a cigar bunch shaper, the combination with a support having two parallel slideways of slides working in said slideways, coacting shaping dies carried by said slides, cam-actuated means 'for simultaneously moving said slides in opposite directions, and cam-actuated means for positioning a bunch between said dies.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

RUPERT E. RUNDELL. 

